“THE BAR ON THE SEINE” can be summed up as a nice and tidy detective novel peopled with an interesting array of characters, some of whom Inspector Maigret matches wits with. The drama begins in a prison cell where a man (Monsieur Lenoir) – a petty criminal sentenced to death whom Maigret had arreste...
ثُمَّ لا أتنازَلُ عن حُبّ هذا الكاتب المُعجِب: أندريه جيد!يا لهُ من كاتبٍ فذّ ومُبدِع! هذا الكِتاب الثاني الذي أقرؤه لهُ، بعد السيمفونية الريفية، ولا بدّ لي من أن أعترف أنني أشهَدٌ لهذا الكاتِب بالعقل النابِغ والقَلب الحيّ. الرواية عِبارة عن سَرد لتجربَة شخصيَّة مع الحياة. بحُلوها القليل ومُرِّها ال...
The Immoralist clearly prefigures work as diverse as DEeath in Venice and The Stranger. However, it's not nearly as good as most of the books that it influenced. The boo0k is about a scholarly man, who after almost dying from a sickness, resolves to live life to the fullest. This apparently means...
Loursat has been satisfied for the past 18 years with waking up well into day, pulling a few more bottles of wine up from the basement, walking around one block, eating a silent dinner with his 20 year old daughter and going back up to his warm study to read and drink until he feels he can sleep aga...
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